[HTML][HTML] Phylogenetic and phylodynamic approaches to understanding and combating the early SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

SW Attwood, SC Hill, DM Aanensen… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Determining the transmissibility, prevalence and patterns of movement of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections is central to our understanding …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 mutations and their impact on diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines

S Thakur, S Sasi, SG Pillai, A Nag, D Shukla… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
With the high rate of COVID-19 infections worldwide, the emergence of SARS-CoV-2
variants was inevitable. Several mutations have been identified in the SARS-CoV-2 …

[HTML][HTML] Remdesivir, Molnupiravir and Nirmatrelvir remain active against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron and other variants of concern

L Vangeel, W Chiu, S De Jonghe, P Maes, B Slechten… - Antiviral research, 2022 - Elsevier
We assessed the in vitro antiviral activity of remdesivir and its parent nucleoside GS-441524,
molnupiravir and its parent nucleoside EIDD-1931 and the viral protease inhibitor …

[HTML][HTML] TMEM106B is a receptor mediating ACE2-independent SARS-CoV-2 cell entry

J Baggen, M Jacquemyn, L Persoons, E Vanstreels… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 is associated with broad tissue tropism, a characteristic often determined by
the availability of entry receptors on host cells. Here, we show that TMEM106B, a lysosomal …

[HTML][HTML] Omicron SARS-CoV-2 mutations stabilize spike up-RBD conformation and lead to a non-RBM-binding monoclonal antibody escape

Z Zhao, J Zhou, M Tian, M Huang, S Liu, Y Xie… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Omicron SARS-CoV-2 is rapidly spreading worldwide. To delineate the impact of emerging
mutations on spike's properties, we performed systematic structural analyses on apo …

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant: Antibody evasion and cryo-EM structure of spike protein–ACE2 complex

D Mannar, JW Saville, X Zhu, SS Srivastava… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The newly reported Omicron variant is poised to replace Delta as the most prevalent severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant across the world. Cryo …

Recent developments in the immunopathology of COVID‐19

H Zhang, Y Sun, Y Wang, D Yazici, D Azkur, I Ogulur… - Allergy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
There has been an important change in the clinical characteristics and immune profile of
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) patients during the pandemic thanks to the …

[HTML][HTML] A detailed overview of immune escape, antibody escape, partial vaccine escape of SARS-CoV-2 and their emerging variants with escape mutations

C Chakraborty, AR Sharma, M Bhattacharya… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The infective SARS-CoV-2 is more prone to immune escape. Presently, the significant
variants of SARS-CoV-2 are emerging in due course of time with substantial mutations …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular characteristics, immune evasion, and impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants

C Sun, C Xie, GL Bu, LY Zhong, MS Zeng - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The persistent COVID-19 pandemic since 2020 has brought an enormous public health
burden to the global society and is accompanied by various evolution of the virus genome …

Differential interactions between human ACE2 and spike RBD of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

S Kim, Y Liu, Z Lei, J Dicker, Y Cao… - Journal of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative agent of
the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It is known that the receptor …